Originally posted by Dr StrangeloveIll have you know, that was full drunk!! Absolutely shnockerd. Its my new game, running down drag queens on two wheels. Oh yea, dont try to fool anyone it was a vespa!
I was riding my bike in rush hour traffic and this half drunk pooftah in a white van runs into me. Drunken pooftah gets out of van and, luckily for him, there was not a scratch on me bike.
Go figure! 😛
Speaking of crazy bikers, since Sweden changed the traffic laws to say
that cars and motor vehicles in general must stop to allow pedestrians to
pass, for some reason this now includes many bikers (it doesn't, but
they seem to think it does). Here's the crazy thing. You drive down a
heavily trafficked road, you're busy keeping an eye on other cars and
red lights and what have you and suddenly, right before the very bus
you're driving, a pedestrian or biker just heads out into the road like it's
the most natural thing in the world. I drive a friggin' bus for crying out
loud! You'd think they'd at least look my way to see if I've noticed them
first, but nooooo... "We have the right to pass the road here and you
must stop for us!". It's like they think they're indestructible or
something. Like if I detect them only seconds too late they'll survive the
impact of being run over by several tons of steel. 🙄
Sometimes I think if I ever do hit one of them crazy buggers it'd be like
a service to nature or something. 😞
Originally posted by stockensome bikers ride incorrectly but as an avid biker in Mosow, Russia,,I find most Drivers crap ad driving and most of them think because they are in a car that they are driving a tank..and pay no attention to bikers much less pedestrians. The more care crashes the better...
Speaking of crazy bikers, since Sweden changed the traffic laws to say
that cars and motor vehicles in general must stop to allow pedestrians to
pass, for some reason this now includes many bikers (it doesn't, but
they seem to think it does). Here's the crazy thing. You drive down a
heavily trafficked road, you're busy keeping an eye on other cars an ...[text shortened]... hit one of them crazy buggers it'd be like
a service to nature or something. 😞
Originally posted by mochironThe way I see it, it's all about co-operation. You make eye-contact with
some bikers ride incorrectly but as an avid biker in Mosow, Russia,,I find most Drivers crap ad driving and most of them think because they are in a car that they are driving a tank..and pay no attention to bikers much less pedestrians. The more care crashes the better...
the driver to make sure (s)he's noticed you, and then you step out
onto the street and start walking (even with a bike you have to lead it
over the roads in Sweden or you're not allowed to pass before cars and
the like).
Now, if as a pedestrian, I successfully make eye contact with a driver
coming too fast down the road and (s)he doesn't slow down, I can step
out on the street just to give the driver a scare, but I would never just
walk out there with the risk for my own life. You never know what maniac
harbour between the wind shield.
As a driver I've had to stand on the breaks a few times (not too often
mind you, but it happens), just barely managing not to drive over
walking fools only to find them waving their fists at me
like I'm crazy. What the?.. It just ticks me off, is all.
